Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universal ...movements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity, that makes... him eat grass; war, plague; cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever b...ook we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, o...f one mind; and that one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool; and whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

But the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or, shall I say, the quadruple, or the centupl...e, or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »